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I Blame Charlton Heston

I'm in a wistful mood, so I might as well take it out on you. It's probably Charlton Heston's fault. Here I was, just sitting around, mourning his passing a little - even though I never knew him personally - and that got me to thinking about how cool it was back in the day when local TV stations had "Apes Week," where they'd air all five PLANET OF THE APES movies right after school at 3:30 or so. I loved those movies. By extension, I loved Charlton Heston. And that reminded me of how much I missed those days. Now, I know the past is the past. I also know that the past was never really as cool as the nostalgia conjured since then. There was always some drama, whether it was girls, school, friends or all in my own head. But screw all that. "Wistful" doesn't mean "reality check." After all, I can be maudlin all I want. So, forty some-odd years in, some of the long-ago things I miss. My red, white and blue Jim Plunkett/Patriots-edition leat